Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.